popup in selected text in unlocked field

[Stephen Barncard]

Mister X, Eric, thanks for your help - Eric is right, your code won't 
work on MacOS. There are forces at work here fighting me with some 
'automatic' behavior in regard to the selection in a field. One thing 
it's trying to do is to select a single word, then it hangs on to 
that selection.

My major complaint about OSX is the way the simple text editing 
functions (probably at the firmware level) have radically changed, 
for the worse since OS9. It takes a lot more unneeded clicking (to 
edit a filename, for instance) to get around these multiple 'helpful' 
behaviors in a field. And it used to be far easier doing tricks with 
the selection in a script. Is there a way to turn off that 
auto-stuff, for just a millisecond?

sqb

At 9:07 AM +0200 5/20/05, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
>Hi Stephen,
>
>here's what you need:
>[script]
>local mylastselection
>
>on mousedown x
>   put the selectedchunk of me into mylastselection
>   if mylastselection is not empty then select mylastselection
>   if x is 3 then
>   lock messages
>   popup "EditMenu" at the mouseloc
>   end if
>   -- pass mousedown
>end mousedown
>[/script]
>